Learning and cognition

Question 1

Define cognition

Answer 1

1/The act of knowing
2/That which is know
=> Cognition is a process( smt we do) of a mental representation of what we perceive and know

Question 2

What does cognition involve

Answer 2

• Perception
• attention
• memory
• decision making
• reasoning
• problem solving
• planning
• immaginning

Question 3

What does mental representation invlove?

Answer 3

• sensor moter rep
• mental image
• abstract
• logical
• linguistic
• sematic
• narrative
• scema
• symbolic rep

Question 4

Hiearhcy of representation

Answer 4

Sensory rep->mental img, visou-spacial rep-> abstract, logical, linguistic, sematic,…
There are three levels of mental representations: sensorimotor representations (awareness of our body in space relative to others), visuo-spatual representations (sensually ‘re-presenting’ a stimuli/event previously experienced) and abstract representations (abstract representation of knowledge, ideas, relationships and concepts, as well as a sense of the past, present and future). Select the correct answers to the following sentence